Getting the Trailer Walls Out of the Way - My Wall Rack
Sept 14, 2020 4:53:27 GMT -8
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Post by Teachndad on Sept 14, 2020 4:53:27 GMT -8
Hi Friends,
Space is a limitation for me for my ’57 Westerner’s restoration. We had to move the chassis and walls stacked on top back to my house and store it in the carport over a year ago. Since then, it’s gathered a thick layer of dust. Before moving it, I had been working on blocking and building the floor.
There just was no space to lean up the walls inside the carport especially after my kids moved back in from college with some furniture, and I wasn’t going to put the walls outside under a tarp. So, I built a rack for my walls. It’s a raised platform on wheels. I can now work underneath the stacked walls as needed or I can wheel it out on to the driveway if I need added work clearance. The images below show how we did it.
It’s all screwed together and bolted at the corners with diagonal bracing and lag bolts. It’s built with 2 x 4’s. 2 x 6’s would have been really heavy because I built it upside down and then thought I had to flip it over just like a wall raising. 2 x 6's would also have been overkill for the weight of the walls. Mounting the legs proved to be interesting with the use of a ladder for support.
Here is the space we had to work with.
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Here is what it looked like when it was finished.
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We started out building it on the ground of the driveway upside down.
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We dry fit the legs and bolted it all together. We ended up removing two of them before we flipped it over.
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We used a ladder to suspend the frame so we could re-bolt the legs into the corners.
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Here it is complete before moving it back over the trailer chassis.
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Now, tucked into the carport ready for the lifting of the walls on top.
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Here you can see on the original floor of the trailer that we had stacked the walls on top of three pallets in order to clear the wheels. Before we had moved it to my house over a year ago, we had placed sliced pool noodles in between to minimize scratching the wall surfaces.
For lifting the walls off the trailer, we slipped two 10’ Redwood 2 x 4’s underneath the wall that was stacked on top. Redwood was light weight. One person would be at each end of the redwood 2 x 4 and we would lift in unison and carry the wall out and lift it up onto the wood platform. We had to repeat this procedure for each wall.
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Cheers,
Rod
Space is a limitation for me for my ’57 Westerner’s restoration. We had to move the chassis and walls stacked on top back to my house and store it in the carport over a year ago. Since then, it’s gathered a thick layer of dust. Before moving it, I had been working on blocking and building the floor.
There just was no space to lean up the walls inside the carport especially after my kids moved back in from college with some furniture, and I wasn’t going to put the walls outside under a tarp. So, I built a rack for my walls. It’s a raised platform on wheels. I can now work underneath the stacked walls as needed or I can wheel it out on to the driveway if I need added work clearance. The images below show how we did it.
It’s all screwed together and bolted at the corners with diagonal bracing and lag bolts. It’s built with 2 x 4’s. 2 x 6’s would have been really heavy because I built it upside down and then thought I had to flip it over just like a wall raising. 2 x 6's would also have been overkill for the weight of the walls. Mounting the legs proved to be interesting with the use of a ladder for support.
Here is the space we had to work with.
IMG_20200806_171247
Here is what it looked like when it was finished.
IMG_20200806_182251
We started out building it on the ground of the driveway upside down.
IMG_20200806_173530
We dry fit the legs and bolted it all together. We ended up removing two of them before we flipped it over.
IMG_20200806_171255
IMG_20200806_171238
We used a ladder to suspend the frame so we could re-bolt the legs into the corners.
IMG_20200806_174819
Here it is complete before moving it back over the trailer chassis.
IMG_20200806_181031
Now, tucked into the carport ready for the lifting of the walls on top.
IMG_20200806_182251
Here you can see on the original floor of the trailer that we had stacked the walls on top of three pallets in order to clear the wheels. Before we had moved it to my house over a year ago, we had placed sliced pool noodles in between to minimize scratching the wall surfaces.
For lifting the walls off the trailer, we slipped two 10’ Redwood 2 x 4’s underneath the wall that was stacked on top. Redwood was light weight. One person would be at each end of the redwood 2 x 4 and we would lift in unison and carry the wall out and lift it up onto the wood platform. We had to repeat this procedure for each wall.
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Cheers,
Rod